In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/mremap: fix address wraparound in move_page_tables()
On 32-bit platforms, it is possible for the expression len + old_addr <
old_end to be false-positive if len + old_addr wraps around.
old_addr is the cursor in the old range up to which page table entries
have been moved; so if the operation succeeded, old_addr is the *end* of
the old region, and adding len to it can wrap.
The overflow causes mremap() to mistakenly believe that PTEs have been
copied; the consequence is that mremap() bails out, but doesn't move the
PTEs back before the new VMA is unmapped, causing anonymous pages in the
region to be lost. So basically if userspace tries to mremap() a
private-anon region and hits this bug, mremap() will return an error and
the private-anon region's contents appear to have been zeroed.
The idea of this check is that old_end - len is the original start
address, and writing the check that way also makes it easier to read; so
fix the check by rearranging the comparison accordingly.
(An alternate fix would be to refactor this function by introducing an
"orig_old_start" variable or such.)
Tested in a VM with a 32-bit X86 kernel; without the patch:
user@horn:~/big_mremap$ cat test.c
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include
#include
#include
#include #define ADDR1 ((void*)0x60000000)
#define ADDR2 ((void*)0x10000000)
#define SIZE 0x50000000uL
int main(void) {
unsigned char *p1 = mmap(ADDR1, SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE, -1, 0);
if (p1 == MAP_FAILED)
err(1, "mmap 1");
unsigned char *p2 = mmap(ADDR2, SIZE, PROT_NONE,
MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE, -1, 0);
if (p2 == MAP_FAILED)
err(1, "mmap 2");
*p1 = 0x41;
printf("first char is 0x%02hhx\n", *p1);
unsigned char *p3 = mremap(p1, SIZE, SIZE,
MREMAP_MAYMOVE|MREMAP_FIXED, p2);
if (p3 == MAP_FAILED) {
printf("mremap() failed; first char is 0x%02hhx\n", *p1);
} else {
printf("mremap() succeeded; first char is 0x%02hhx\n", *p3);
}
}
user@horn:~/big_mremap$ gcc -static -o test test.c
user@horn:~/big_mremap$ setarch -R ./test
first char is 0x41
mremap() failed; first char is 0x00
With the patch:
user@horn:~/big_mremap$ setarch -R ./test
first char is 0x41
mremap() succeeded; first char is 0x41
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it